The language of Deacs. Not to be confused with DKEs. 

Instead of giving the freshmen lanyards, we should give them dictionaries. 

1. The Pit: It's not a lion's pit, the pit of hell (though it sometimes feels like it) or what you accidentally bite into inside a peach or plum -- it's our cafeteria. 

2. Last Resort: LR is a TV series, the name of many songs and a back-up plan when all else fails. But for us Wake students, it's just Thursday night. #STLR

3. LGW: It's not a misspelling of leg. It's an acronym for "let's get weird." Eventually, autocorrect will catch on. 

4. Heat: According to the dictionary, it's the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth. I guess the water is pretty warm in a certain dark, crowded and flooded basement. 

5. DAM: A dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams. At Wake, DAM is an all-morning, chocolate-syrup-covered shit-show. 

6. Machi: A poor little uneducated freshman guy may think it's some kind of chip. In reality, it's pronounced "ma-chee" and short for Sigma Chi. 

7. Gov Docs: A place in the library where students come to half study and half eat a salad/gossip sort of loudly. On the 4th floor. 

8. Posties: Not post-its. A week of debauchery in Dirty Myrtle, SC.

9. Croaks/Crolo: Sounds like the noises a frog makes. Abbreviations for the off-campus apartment complexes Crowne Oaks and Crowne Polo. 

10. Pledge Drivers: Mom, I promise, it's the only time it's 100% safe and acceptable to get into a stranger's car!

11. ABC: The DMV of liquor stores. AKA where we buy our booze. 

12. Senior Fifth: Merry fifthmas to all, and to all a good...night.

13. Chucks: These are not the chucks of your middle-school angst days. These are sorority chucks. 

14. SWUGs: Self-declared, senior washed up girls. "I didn't choose the swuglife, the swug life chose me."

15. O-Week: The best way to welcome back Wake and remind yourself why you love being a Demon Deacon. T-minus 1 month, my friends.